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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The outsider bitterness of the have-lesses is palpable here.  [/quote]

When the extremely wealthy repeatedly pervert democratic processes by using back channels and inducements to [b]appropriate public resources for their own use,[/b] the rest of us indeed have a right to be bitter. There’s a term now for what has been going on in the Palisades: “empty swimming pool politics”. It’s a disgusting phenomenon that should be furiously opposed by anyone who has any interest in making this city a better place to live.[/quote]

What?

Anyway I am curious about the "inducements" that the highest-income Palisades dwellers employed to prohibit public access to resources that are physically located in Palisades.

Are you saying that the situation is analogous to coastal dwellers in Connecticut and Malibu who get the town to pass laws allowing only town residents to park on beach-adjacent streets so non-town dwellers effectively cannot get to the beach?  Or like the waterfront residents in the Hamptons who erect jetties that block beach walking along the shore?

Or maybe you're alleging that Palisades residents accomplished a Gramercy Park situation, where only adjacent residents get a $$$ key to gain access to locked park?

Can you elaborate on the public resources that are off limits to any city dweller?

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